Nurse Practitioner Groups Merge, Seek More Active Role in Caregiving

The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the American College of Nurse Practitioners have announced that they will merge into one group, effective January 1, 2013, and will henceforth be known as the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

The new group, which will have a membership of 40,000, hopes to become more involved in the formation of future caregiving models and expand the role of the nurse practitioner. However, the American Academy of Family Physicians has resisted the idea of allowing non-physicians to to take on more primary-care practices or certain other expanded roles, arguing that the training and education levels between the two groups are simply too different.

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